The name won't mean anything to people in many countries, so to explain, rebus are words or phrases represented by pictures. Historically they were used to represent surnames on coats of arms, but nowadays you're more likely to encounter them as obscure puzzles, also known as dingbats.
What we have here from developer Jutiful is a nicely-presented collection of rebus, organised in to 14 sets of eight. The first couple of sets are available straight away, and as you complete them you unlock the next set. You earn coins from each puzzle you solve, and if you get stuck then you can spend your coins to get clues.
There's something about rebus that really appeals to some people, myself included, so I was all over this game as soon as it came out. But there's a fine line between good rebus and bad rebus, and this game crosses the line a few too many times.
Here's an example of a good puzzle. It's an M on DAY. Monday.

As I dug in to the first couple of rebus I settled down on the couch next to my better half, who is most definitely not in to this sort of puzzle game. She soon got interested, but for the wrong reasons. After breezing through the first few puzzles I started to encounter ones that I couldn't even begin to solve, so I jokingly showed them to the good lady to see what she made of them. Unable to solve them, she started googling for the answers. The answers that she found were ridiculous. But correct.
This became a new game in itself, trying to go backwards from the answers to work out how on earth they were right. And there definitely is an "absurd logic" here, as Jutiful promised. Five coloured circles" The answer is orange. Because it's a RANGE of O's, you see" An O-RANGE. An upside-down coathanger" Bat. Because a bat is an upside-down hanger. I couldn't even figure that one out on my own, it took the gargantuan brain of Mr Shaun Musgrave to reverse engineer it.
Here's one to have a go at yourself...

One can't help but think that there might be some in-app purchase shenanigans going on here. You get 100 coins for each puzzle you solve, but you'll need 500-1000 to solve the more obscure ones. Sooner or later you're going to run out of earned coins and need to buy some. And do you know what, the IAPs in this game aren't actually too bad, price wise. There's even a $5 pack which gives you 100,000 coins and removes the ads, so that pretty much gives you the full game for $5 which is fair enough.
But the thing is, if you want to play a game like this, you probably don't want to "solve" the puzzles by paying for the answers. You don't want to google the answers. You want to work them out for yourself and enjoy that satisfaction. And if cheating the answers leaves you scratching your head and thinking well, I'd never have got that... well, soon you won't care anymore. You won't want to invest any time in figuring out the puzzles that you can't get straight away, because you might not even understand the ans...

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